It’s late, I shouldn’t be typing, I should be cuddling with my pup Redford (who I left behind last week) and getting through the second half of Toshiro Mifune’s Samurai Trilogy, which I’ve seen a half dozen times since my best friend Noel and I used to watch it (and anything by Kurosawa, and anything Marx Bros) at the Boulder Public Library back when we were little wandering ronin.

But…one…last…blog.

So, I recently got rid of my car, finally. I’m a 365 day cyclist now (except for those days when I fly around the country, doing my small-yet-significant part to help make all our skies look like LA or Denver’s brown horizons). So while I may not be a member of Car Nation any longer, I do still dream of roadtripping in an ecoish wireless-equipped vehicle with staff and random friends as we do our little big elevision talk show at yoga studios, expos, festivals and theaters across the country.

And it looks like I just found my Dream Car. It’s a van—an update of the iconic VW Bus for the age of Climate Change. And you can actually reserve them, now, this is beyond concept (provided you got 128K laying around). Video:

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I love this design so much I want to marry it. Seriously. … But with a 60k dowry, ouch. Also there’s a huge leap between surface modeling and manufacturing, and the current models do not appear to realistically handle the latter.
Still, I can keep hoping. I am sweating this van. It makes me want to go roll around in sawdust and mud naked and then climb a tree and shriek like a howler monkey. And I (almost) never say that.

i'm in. we make our own bio diesel up hear in a.k. i want one with all wheel drive for the snow. my dream car has been a vw diesel camper with awd for years. it would be nice for the motor to be in front for safety reasons (moose) and slick roads. i wonder how i contact the designer and sign up.

Darn – you could buy a used camper synchro, swap out the engine for a flat 6 from a Porsche, deck it out in ALL the goodies, and still have 100k in your pocket. And it would be USED, which is the most underrated way to reduce your footprint with your automobile purchase.